The Candice Malcolm Show - December 01, 2023


The legacy media got it wrong again!

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Pierre Polyev scandal legacy media spin Pierre Polyev vote dominance
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Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Althea Raj Andrew Scheer Andrew Coyne Jenny Byrne Searchlight Pictures Rachel Gilmore Chantali Baer Andrew Stanton Brian Mulroney John Ibbotson Kate McKinnon Bruce Arthur John Iverson Conrad Black Barbara Kay Daveed Diggs Rex Murphy Oscar
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Last week, we witnessed the stupidest scandal in Canadian history. The legacy media invented a fake news narrative about Pierre Polyev, which he easily, correctly, and firmly debunked. Now, in response, the legacy media lost their minds. They called Polyev a liar and a bully, and predicted that he was about to plummet in the polls. Well, the latest polls are in, and surprise, surprise, the media got it wrong again.

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00:00:00.000 Last week, we witnessed the stupidest scandal in Canadian history. 0.99
00:00:04.880 The legacy media invented a fake news narrative about Pierre Polyev, 0.99
00:00:08.300 which he easily, correctly, and firmly debunked.
00:00:12.300 Now in response, the legacy media lost their minds. 0.78
00:00:15.400 They called Polyev a liar and a bully and predicted that he was about to plummet in the polls.
00:00:20.540 Well, the latest polls are in, and surprise, surprise, the legacy media got it wrong again.
00:00:25.580 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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00:00:54.740 So last week on Fake News Friday, I broke down what I believe to be one of the stupidest, 0.98
00:00:59.920 if not the stupidest, media scandals in Canadian history. 0.99
00:01:03.460 So according to the legacy media, basically every single journalist in the legacy media, 0.99
00:01:08.500 they all decided that opposition leader Pierre Polyev had done something egregious.
00:01:12.980 So what did he do? Did he waste a billion dollars on some green scheme?
00:01:16.760 No, that was Justin Trudeau.
00:01:18.460 Did he give away multi-million dollar contracts to his friends,
00:01:21.060 who were also paying his family members to give speeches?
00:01:24.000 No, that was Trudeau as well.
00:01:25.700 Did he pressure his attorney general to quit because she refused to give a sweetheart deal
00:01:29.080 to a large party donor?
00:01:30.960 Did he go on vacation to a billionaire's private island
00:01:33.260 and then turn around and give government handouts to that billionaire's organization?
00:01:36.940 Or did he parade around in racist blackface for much of his 20s and early 30s?
00:01:41.100 Okay, you're on to me. Those were all obviously Justin Trudeau.
00:01:43.680 No, no, according to the legacy media, Polyev's far worse crimes were, and this is accurate, 1.00
00:01:50.620 quoting a CTV story in the House of Commons,
00:01:53.680 pointing that out to a CP reporter who was interrogating him with gotcha questions,
00:01:57.680 and then defending himself against a attempted smear campaign by the media,
00:02:02.000 and finally refusing to bend the knee and apologize to them.
00:02:04.880 Yes, that is the scandal that the legacy media reporters are obsessing over,
00:02:09.160 that they rush to comment on, rush to condemn,
00:02:11.380 and they use that to predict that Polyev was probably going to lose the next election.
00:02:16.600 First of all, this is what the exchange looked like between Polyev and the CP reporter.
00:02:20.980 I'll just show you part of it.
00:02:22.240 Actually, you're wrong. Are you with CP?
00:02:24.560 Okay, so CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's knowledge,
00:02:27.900 did have to make three corrections for falsehoods that they put into a single article.
00:02:33.160 I think that might be unprecedented.
00:02:35.340 I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of World Records
00:02:38.680 to see if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections
00:02:43.340 for patent falsehoods that they admit they had been made in one single article,
00:02:48.460 and now you've made yet another falsehood in your question.
00:02:52.280 Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of Canada
00:02:56.520 was presuming that the incident was terrorist.
00:02:59.160 So, yeah, that was, and that's what I said in my remarks.
00:03:03.240 You're right. It was a media report.
00:03:05.820 Which is what I said.
00:03:09.000 In the House, I said there are media reports.
00:03:11.260 Okay, and this is just a handful of the legacy media journalists responding to that interaction.
00:03:16.980 Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star wrote,
00:03:19.360 just another grotesque day for the Conservative Party,
00:03:22.340 adding that it was a truly scummy moment for Pierre Polyev.
00:03:26.320 Next, Andrew Coyne of the Globe and Mail saying,
00:03:28.460 I don't know who he thinks he's impressing with this campus Tory childishness.
00:03:32.980 Tabitha Thuthi from McLean's in the Globe and Mail wrote,
00:03:35.480 this entire incident ought to disqualify the man as prime minister.
00:03:39.280 John Iverson from the National Post wrote,
00:03:41.080 he could lose this whole thing yet if he keeps behaving this way.
00:03:44.680 Next, on one of our favorite programs to include in Fake News Friday,
00:03:48.820 here's a clip from CBC's Power in Politics featuring the Toronto Star's Chantelle Ibert
00:03:54.280 just telling us what she really thinks about Pierre Polyev.
00:03:57.480 It will be very hard to sell a leader who is turning out to be an intellectual bully,
00:04:04.440 especially one who picks on people who are smaller than him
00:04:10.340 in the sense that the journalist asking a question is smaller than someone who is the leader of a major party.
00:04:17.240 And I don't know what is being said outside Quebec in the other language,
00:04:24.700 but I was on a panel today and the words I used associated with Pierre Polyev,
00:04:31.300 and they are gaining currency, is that he is someone who will lie whenever it suits its purpose.
00:04:37.880 Next, we have the media's favorite TikTok journalist, Rachel Gilmore, saying,
00:04:43.640 how do you push back on the spot when Polyev outright lies to your face?
00:04:48.580 Okay, so those are just a few of my favorite examples of media losing their minds.
00:04:52.100 It got worse.
00:04:52.680 It started to get a little bit nasty over the weekend.
00:04:55.340 Andrew Coyne, again of Globe and Mail,
00:04:56.880 posted this picture on social media with the caption,
00:05:00.940 amazing, amazing.
00:05:02.360 This is from the Globe and Mail.
00:05:04.200 They put a very, very rude and unflattering picture of a previous leader of the Conservative Party,
00:05:09.340 Andrew Scheer, saying,
00:05:11.140 wanted a bit of common sense.
00:05:13.180 So, of course, the legacy media wants Andrew Scheer back.
00:05:15.820 The whole defining feature of Andrew Scheer was that he let the legacy media define him.
00:05:21.340 He let them derail them.
00:05:22.500 He lost an election just barely.
00:05:24.060 He actually won the popular vote, but lost the 2019 election in large part because the legacy media went after him ruthlessly.
00:05:32.220 They decided that he was some sort of a bigot because he refused to change what Catholics believe about sin and marriage
00:05:38.800 and basically wrote him off as a bigot.
00:05:41.780 So, the legacy media yearns for the day when they could just simply define a Conservative leader
00:05:47.680 and a Conservative leader doesn't wish to push back, being a little obvious, saying the quiet part out loud.
00:05:53.100 And Andrew Coyne thinks this is all amazing.
00:05:55.780 Next, we had Althea Raj on X. 0.95
00:05:58.020 So, first, Jenny Byrne, who's a Conservative operative, wrote the pretty obvious statement.
00:06:02.600 She writes this,
00:06:03.220 Any wonder why the press gallery has been in full attack mode against Pierre since Trudeau's fall update.
00:06:07.720 He's giving them another $30,000 per journalist in tax-funded media bailouts.
00:06:12.780 Expect them to do whatever the PMO says.
00:06:15.580 So, this is accurate.
00:06:16.740 This is true.
00:06:17.580 The Trudeau government gave media another bailout, gave them another $116 million,
00:06:22.380 said that they would pay the newsrooms up to $30,000 per journalist.
00:06:26.680 And in response to the exact same week, we see the media attacking Pierre Polyev.
00:06:31.480 Instead of going after Trudeau for as many scandals,
00:06:33.700 instead of pointing out the fact that Canadians are losing faith in the Prime Minister,
00:06:36.360 they all turned their sights on Pierre Polyev.
00:06:39.200 A little bit of a coincidence, not a good look for these journalists,
00:06:41.920 no matter how much they swear up and down that they are completely unreliant and unbiased on the Trudeau government.
00:06:47.660 It's a pretty big coincidence that that's all happening at the same time.
00:06:50.260 So, back to Althea Raj, who writes for the Toronto Star and is also a commentator,
00:06:55.160 a paid commentator on the CBC.
00:06:57.300 She writes this,
00:06:58.060 This is complete BS, and Jenny knows it.
00:07:00.860 They are looking for something to blame for a bad week.
00:07:03.820 So, this sort of sounds like a partisan talking point, doesn't it?
00:07:07.540 The Conservatives are having a bad week,
00:07:09.200 and so they're just trying to look for something to blame.
00:07:10.680 That is literally exactly what liberals say all the time.
00:07:13.500 It's how they spin.
00:07:14.240 Althea goes on.
00:07:15.520 She says,
00:07:15.940 The government is providing a labor tax credit to employers.
00:07:20.200 It's indirect, and it applies broadly.
00:07:22.940 One of the organizations who has lobbied the most for this is the National Post and Post Media.
00:07:26.860 So, again, just jumping further into liberal spin mode.
00:07:30.480 Liberal spin, no, no, no, it's not a bailout.
00:07:32.240 It's just a tax credit.
00:07:33.560 It goes to the employers.
00:07:35.240 It's a labor tax credit, and it's broad.
00:07:37.640 It doesn't just apply to those who support Trudeau.
00:07:39.680 It applies to everybody.
00:07:40.820 Well, everybody in the legacy media, including Post Media, as if that's supposed to somehow let them off the hook.
00:07:46.360 Post Media gets it.
00:07:47.100 Post Media is sometimes quasi-centrist, right?
00:07:50.740 Sometimes kind of conservative.
00:07:52.400 Sometimes allows conservative writers like Rex Murphy, Conrad Black, or Barbara Kaye to write in the paper occasionally.
00:07:59.100 And that somehow makes it okay for taxpayer money to go to media companies.
00:08:02.780 I mean, this is just spin-wrapped and spin-wrapped and spin.
00:08:05.420 So, the legacy media, as you can see, are basically in agreement.
00:08:08.420 They say that Pierre Polyev had a significant misstep.
00:08:11.620 It was a scandal.
00:08:12.720 As Althea Raj says, the Conservatives had a very bad week.
00:08:16.240 John Ibbotson in the National Post says that Pierre Polyev could lose this thing yet. 0.97
00:08:20.480 Chantilly Baer of CBC and the Toronto Star says that Canadians are seeing a different side of Polyev, that he's a liar and a bully, 0.73
00:08:27.400 and basically that this is going to make Canadians turn on Pierre Polyev. 0.68
00:08:31.840 Well, did their prediction come true?
00:08:33.920 It just so happens that there was a national poll conducted over the weekend.
00:08:37.200 So, that exchange between Pierre Polyev and the CPU Reporter happened on Thursday, November 23rd.
00:08:42.880 I did my show Fake News Friday on it last Friday, the 24th.
00:08:45.800 And then an abacus poll was conducted on Sunday, November 26th.
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00:09:20.660 And so what does this poll say?
00:09:23.300 Well, here it is.
00:09:24.340 The party who is predicted to have the most seats in the next election is the Conservative Party.
00:09:30.040 The chances that they will win the most seats?
00:09:32.200 99% versus the Liberals?
00:09:34.560 1%.
00:09:35.080 Again, that's based on polling from November 26th.
00:09:37.940 Let's go through what that poll said by region.
00:09:40.380 Here is the committed vote intended.
00:09:43.140 Look at these numbers for the Conservatives.
00:09:44.640 40% in BC.
00:09:45.540 60% in Alberta.
00:09:46.860 51% in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
00:09:48.820 41% in Ontario.
00:09:50.960 Still trailing in Quebec.
00:09:52.260 But look at Atlanta, Canada.
00:09:53.480 41% Conservative for only 33% Liberal and 18% NDP.
00:09:59.960 What about by age?
00:10:00.920 Well, Justin Trudeau swept with millennial voters to get into office.
00:10:04.600 Look at it now.
00:10:05.380 18 to 29-year-olds.
00:10:06.660 30% Conservative.
00:10:07.660 That's more than either the NDP or the Liberals.
00:10:10.880 As far as 30 to 44, 39%.
00:10:14.220 45 to 59, 42%.
00:10:17.460 16 over 42%.
00:10:19.400 So Pierre Polyev dominating in every single age group.
00:10:22.880 How about by gender?
00:10:23.800 Well, the male feminist, Justin Trudeau, is now losing among women and is not close.
00:10:28.980 36% of women voting for Polyev, say that they would vote for Polyev, versus 25 for the Libs,
00:10:35.160 23 for the NDP.
00:10:37.660 And 41% of men saying that they will cast their vote for the Conservative.
00:10:42.200 This is always an interesting one to me.
00:10:44.060 One of the biggest markers of who will vote for Conservatives is people who own their own home.
00:10:49.220 And that's something that's barely ever talked about.
00:10:51.080 But the kind of people who have families, the kind of people who have that kind of responsibility,
00:10:54.940 who own a home, raising a family.
00:10:57.040 Those are the kind of people who tend to vote for Conservative.
00:11:00.260 44% of homeowners are intending to vote for Polyev.
00:11:04.460 But again, people who live at home, people who live with family, 35% for Polyev. 0.99
00:11:09.040 People who rent versus those who buy.
00:11:11.360 People who rent, 32% for Polyev versus 24 for the Libs.
00:11:15.380 This one is just really shocking to me.
00:11:18.380 By union membership, public sector unions are going for Pierre Polyev.
00:11:23.640 Private sector unions are going for Pierre Polyev.
00:11:26.600 And no union membership are going for Pierre Polyev.
00:11:29.180 Next, I wanted to show you the voting intention by region.
00:11:33.260 Here is Toronto.
00:11:34.580 Notoriously left-wing Liberal Toronto says that they're going for Pierre Polyev.
00:11:39.620 36% in Toronto proper, 42% in the GTA.
00:11:45.200 Next, education level.
00:11:46.720 We're often told that intelligent, college-educated people go for Liberals.
00:11:50.900 Not so much.
00:11:51.940 College-educated are more likely to be voting for Pierre Polyev.
00:11:55.840 41% for college-educated, university-educated 37% to only 28% for the Libs.
00:12:03.600 So no matter what demographic you're looking at, Pierre Polyev is dominating.
00:12:07.720 Among Liberal strongholds, among former left-wing voters, Pierre Polyev is dominating.
00:12:12.800 Final one I wanted to show you here is basically exactly to the point the Legacy Media were talking about last week.
00:12:18.620 It says the question was, has your intention of ex-politician changed over the past few weeks?
00:12:24.320 So for Justin Trudeau, has your opinion worsened?
00:12:26.640 48% of Canadians say yes, our opinion has worsened of Justin Trudeau.
00:12:30.900 39% say no change and only 13% say that their opinion has improved.
00:12:35.360 What about for Pierre Polyev?
00:12:36.540 We're told that he showed his nasty side and that's going to turn Canadians away from him.
00:12:40.960 Well, no change, 45%. 0.87
00:12:43.120 People whose impression improved.
00:12:45.460 32% and 22% listen.
00:12:49.060 So I guess 22% of Canadians maybe listen to the Legacy Media or get their opinion through them compared to, again, 48% for Trudeau said that their opinion worsens.
00:12:59.460 So it's almost like the Legacy Media is completely wrong.
00:13:03.500 Okay, finally, the poll aggregator 338, which just shows the aggregate of all polls taken recently, shows that the Conservatives now hold a solid 41% of the voting projection, which would equate to 208 seats.
00:13:17.040 We're talking, folks, we're talking about perhaps the largest sweep in Canadian history.
00:13:21.900 We're talking about 1984 levels when Brian Mulroney won 211 seats, which was the most number of seats ever won by a political party.
00:13:29.360 Pierre Polyev is up in that territory.
00:13:30.920 Look at the divergence in vote between Liberal and Conservative over the past six months.
00:13:36.520 And again, this is telling us everything we need to know about the Legacy Media.
00:13:39.880 Why are they scrambling to attack the leader of the opposition?
00:13:42.640 Why are they working so hard to change a perception of Justin Trudeau to shift attention away from the prime minister who is engulfed in scandals and who Canadians just aren't very happy with?
00:13:51.380 Why aren't they focusing on that?
00:13:53.260 Why are they focusing on Conservative leader Pierre Polyev?
00:13:56.080 Well, your guess is as good as mine.
00:13:57.580 Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Pierre Polyev doesn't want to bail out the media, that he opposes media bailouts, that he opposes huge taxpayer funding towards the CBC and the newspapers.
00:14:07.000 Maybe, maybe that has something to do with it.
00:14:09.220 Finally, last poll here, November 29th, three in four Canadians want Justin Trudeau to go.
00:14:16.220 Well, Justin Trudeau insists he's going to stay, but the overwhelming majority, 72% of all respondents say Justin Trudeau should go.
00:14:24.000 That includes 33% of Liberal supporters.
00:14:28.280 That's the truth.
00:14:29.080 Look, polling could be wrong.
00:14:30.080 Take it all with a grain of salt.
00:14:31.900 It's a snapshot into what Canadians are thinking about and feeling this week in politics.
00:14:36.620 But just keep in mind that this is exactly the opposite direction that the legacy media told you that things were going to go.
00:14:43.120 Their perception of Pierre Polyev is completely wrong.
00:14:46.120 All right.
00:14:46.360 Thanks so much for tuning in.
00:14:47.800 Have a wonderful weekend.
00:14:49.000 This has been Fake News Friday.
00:14:49.980 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:14:51.840 I'm Candice Malcolm.
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